Integrated optical encoder

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The three state contact process is the modi cation of the contact process at rate
in which rst infections occur at rate instead. Chapters 2 and 3 consider the three
state contact process on (graphs that have as set of sites) the integers with nearest
neighbours interaction (that is, edges are placed among sites at Euclidean distance
one apart). Results in Chapter 2 are meant to illustrate regularity of the growth of
the process under the assumption that , that is, reverse immunization. While
in Chapter 3 two results regarding the convergence rates of the process are given.
Chapter 4 is concerned with the i.i.d. behaviour of the right endpoint of contact
processes on the integers with symmetric, translation invariant interaction. Finally,
Chapter 5 is concerned with two monotonicity properties of the three state contact
process.